Westgate

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Should journalists expect support and
protection from security agents when they risk their lives to report on
security operations? What if their coverage could potentially expose military
strategies? Why are journalists disparaged as unpatriotic when they show how
security operations fail?

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Rumor had it that thieves and police had exchanged gunfire during
the robbery of a bank at the Westgate Mall. That was the word that first
reached some Nairobi newsrooms that Saturday about the gunshots many Kenyans heard
coming from the luxurious shopping mall.

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The
jumpy, cell phone clips of journalists and security officers crouching outside
the upscale Westgate Shopping Mall in the capital, Nairobi, permeated the TV
screens across Kenya for four days. Edgy
local and foreign reporters hid behind vehicles as gunfire shots, repeated
explosions and smoke emanated from a supermarket inside.